Piz Fess

Piz Fess

View from Laax (north side)
Highest point
Elevation 2,880 m (9,450 ft)
Prominence 501 m (1,644 ft)[1]
Parent peak Rheinwaldhorn
Coordinates 46°43′40.9″N 9°17′22.7″E / 46.728028°N 9.289639°E / 46.728028; 9.289639Coordinates: 46°43′40.9″N 9°17′22.7″E / 46.728028°N 9.289639°E / 46.728028; 9.289639
Geography
Piz Fess

Location in Switzerland

Location Graubünden, Switzerland
Parent range Lepontine Alps
Climbing
First ascent 10 August 1895 by Karl Viescher, Wieland Wieland and J. Christoffel.[2]

Piz Fess is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, situated between the Val Lumnezia and Safiental in the canton of Graubünden. Piz Fess is the culminating point of the Signina range (Romansh: Cadeina dil Signina).

The mountain has two summits, a gentle summit named the Guter Fess ("Good Fess"; 2,874 m) and a not so gentle one named Böser Fess ("Angry Fess"; 2,880 m). In 1894 the pinnacle was still described as unclimbable, but the next summer Karl Viescher from Basel and the local guides Wieland Wieland and J. Christoffel reached the sharp summit.[2]

The summit of Böser Fess seen from the Guter Fess

References

  1. Swisstopo map
  2. 1 2 W. Deriehsweiler, Das Safiental, Yearbook of the Swiss Alpin Club, 1919, p. 111


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